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About vmijpp

VMIJPP hails from the star city of the south, Roanoke, Virginia. A 1989 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he is a retired artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps, with time in both the active and reserve sides. He served in Iraq in 2004, and in Afghanistan in 2009-2010. He joined the magnificent OPFOR.com as a guest blogger from the now defunct but never uninteresting Rule 308, where he denounced gun control and other aspects of tyranny, and proclaimed the greatness of the United States. When the sun set on OPFOR.com, he migrated here with Keydet1976 and the others.

PI has had more than its fair share of controversy lately. Glad to see a VMI guy is going to get it right. One small question–is his the official Marine Corps visage? Do folks learn that grimace at some point? As the famous major Jock Sinclair, DSO, MM, used to ask (Alec Guinness in Tunes of Glory): “Smile, man. Have ye got no teeth?”

Brother Rat StClair’s grim visage conceals a much more light-hearted personality, a devil-take-the-hindmost beau sabreur who would have been at home riding with Marshal Murat, Jeb Stuart, or Colonel Mosby. Or not. He’s pretty much all-business. 🙂